previous event hair & face coupon for gachapon.

Modern hair/eyes are terrible I literally puke when I see all the uwu duwu characters, much rather have them stay rare. Reason to run away, not stay

I believe there's also times where a poll is opened about reintroducing a specific style

 

Imagine a new player
poor af
try lucky in gacha
and get a hair..

no way in normal gacha e.e

 

These items are referred to as 'event' items because they can only be obtained through events.
It would make sense to consider reintroducing them in future events.

 

The more items in gacha the less likely you are to get a specific one. Also, people who participated in past events and got event exclusive hairs and faces I think deserve to keep it exclusive. I like the idea that older players get rewarded with legacy items and styles.

 

Will the event planners

 

I guess this is an uncalled for opinion but since you mentioned some sort of cosmetic gacha i'll dump my idea here. I'm completely aware that this is a hot take and there's more to it and i'll probably bother to write about but I believe legends SHOULD "monetize" more aggressively. By this I mean increasing the cosmetic options via donations be it by a donor gacha that allows for old event items + exclusive items (possibly on a seasonal rotation), purchasing old event hairs with donor cash and in any other way the staff sees fit. My whole idea with this approach is quite simple. At the end of the day, we are all adults and we all care about money and there's hardly any better motivator. Providing an incentive to staff members (I'm mostly referring to developers in this case) who use the knowledge they obtained via some sort of education and is otherwised paid in any other context would be a great approach. I'm not trying to imply that the development staff works less because of the voluntary status but it's common knowledge that if an incentive is given, chances are better/faster results will come.

I'm saying this because I believe there's a lot of members including myself who wouldn't mind having more options to spend our donation points on and would be at ease knowing that the money is going towards the hardworking staff members. There's chance that this could increase the pace at which the game is developed which obviously helps with the retention of players, and the influx of new ones. I believe there's nothing more important than releasing events in their due dates. Mostly because people are free to play during these time periods and not weeks/months after when school/work resumes. There would also be a direct relationship between the quality/speed of the updates and the amount of donations received (Since the livelier the game is, chances are more players are around to donate).

Obviously I can't know for sure what kind of IRL obligations developers have or whether money would be a proper incentive or not but I do know it's a great incentive in general. Given that this is not the case, I'd still be in favor of having more options to spend my donation points on and further support the server. I apologize if this somehow offends anyone and is deemed too controversial, I simply respect the job that is being done with this server and I'm rooting for it to be on its best possible version. There's also a big chance this idea is completely against the design philosophy of the server in general and given that's the case, I completely respect the sentiment.

 

I think staff getting paid for their work is a great idea. I does raise some issues though. If staff begins to rely on a paycheck then the server begins to cost more money to keep running. The money can only come from one place, and that's us as the players. The server population is really small, and I can't imagine the staff team gets nearly enough from donations to pay full salaries for all of them. The team might have to employ more and more aggressive forms of monetization to keep the server running, and I could see a change like this causing a lot of issues internally.

 

Well the way I see it is amongst all the staff positions, it's perfectly fine for most of them to be voluntary. Most of these positions truly have an impact in the course of the game but even then I'd say the one with the biggest work load is that of a developer. Not only do developers carry the biggest workload but also arguably one of the biggest responsibilities. I'm not exactly sure how it works but if I were to assume for the most part, most staff positions are in a way whatever you can chip in. A role in development definitely consumes way more time than any other staff roles all to say that I'd say other positions are "Mostly fine" in terms of being voluntary.

I'm not talking about a full salary, and more so an incentive (based on what can be given which is based on whatever was earned during the month) but truth be told any extra money that comes from a side hustle definitely helps (regardless of the amount) as I doubt the server has the large scale it would require to fully pay full time salaries.

At the end of the day, the only line legends cannot cross is that of being pay to win in any way. Everyone knows how succesful the gacha and lootbox bussiness model is and applying that system only including cosmetics is completely valid. At the end of the day, it is the players choice whether they spend or not and would not be required to.